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Fellowship Project
Dr. Giulia Pra Floriani spent one year (August 2023 – August 2024) at the Museum of Civilizations and the Library of Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient (IsIAO) in Rome, to research on the collection of Giuseppe Tucci (1894 –1984) and the Italian discourse on Asian Art History during the first half of the twentieth century. During her Fellowship, Giulia had approached the objects collected by Tucci and other archaeologists and scholars in Asia, including circa 2000 Gandhara fragments, Tanka Paintings, and a selection of the 14,000 photographic items. She had also identified, dated, and captioned some of the uncatalogued photographic images in the collection of the IsIAO Library.
Biography
Dr. Giulia Pra Floriani is an Italian researcher of transcultural Art History specializing in the history of Photography in China. She owns a Ph.D. from the Institute of East Asian Art History at Heidelberg University, a master’s degree in Chinese Language and Culture from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a Master’s degree in Art History from Peking University. She has worked as a curator of contemporary photography at International Photography Festivals in Pingyao and Dali, as a research assistant at the Völkerkunde-Museum der J. u. E. von Portheim-Stiftung in Heidelberg, and as a lecturer at Heidelberg University.
Recent Development and Achievement
Dr. Giulia Pra Floriani is currently in the final phases of editing for the book Ink meets Oil: Chinese Artists trained in Europe (1920-1945), edited with Sarah Fraser and Shen Kuiyi, and forthcoming in 2023, which investigates the role of Academic Training in the formation of Modern Art Education in China.
She has recently coordinated and translated the interview by Elio Cappuccio to Wang Guangyi, which will be published in the exhibition catalogue of the exhibition Hidden Existence at Palazzo Pitti, Florence, planned for September 2023.
Selected Publication(s)
